My iPhone couldn't play the blog videos in the earlier post, so I'm adding YouTube links for each of the songs. While I'm at it, I'll yammer about the recordings.
Here is the YouTube link to the original song "Butterfly" by CandyShoppe, track 4 on their Glitterbox CD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8j7gPeamg
Great song, great band, but somewhat challenging to find their music on the internet. I see they have a facebook page (though I've never really been on facebook so I don't get updates), and some videos on YouTube.
Here is the YouTube link to a demo version of my cover version of the same song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO4USJrQBkc
Significantly inferior to the original, and with noticeably more accordion than the original, though I can't blame the former on the latter. I'm playing every instrument on this track except for the drums, which are all Garageband loops. For this cover I replaced the piano melody in the beginning of the original with harmonics on the electric guitar (for measures 1-4 and 9-12 anyway).
As I'd noted in the previous post, I actually recorded vocals for this track but they are so very very bad that I cannot bring myself to post that version here, and I'm going to seek help from a friend to sing them instead. And that goes for all of the songs I'm going to do for this project.
Arguably interesting tidbit: my 12-bass accordion has neither an E bass button nor an E chord button, so I had to play a sloppy D minor (i.e. a D major plus an overpowering F bass note) on a separate track and then change the pitch of that track up two whole notes in Garageband for those parts of the song.
Here is the YouTube link to a demo version of my original song, currently entitled Demo #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdQmbhEGuv4
I have no lyrics written for this one yet, and thus no real title. I will absolutely add vocals to this at some point or another within the next two months, but as of yet I have no idea what they'll be about. So far this is just acoustic guitar, bass guitar and Garageband drum loops. I will probably add other instruments to the track, but I'm not sure what yet.
Both of these demo songs have to go onto the back burner until December. My November is peppered with a bunch of work travel, so I'll have to work on the two new demos with what little time I'll have at home in order to meet the November requirements of the long-form Commuter Challenge.
I'm also realizing that it's very likely I won't submit to SongFight this week despite the comparably general (and therefore comparably easy) SongFight title. If I don't finish it tonight then it won't be ready by the November 4 deadline, and I seriously doubt that I'll finish it tonight.
I am also coming the the frustrating realization that anything I submit to SongFight will have to include my own sub-sub-par vocals, because any sort of vocal collaboration within the next two months will take a lot of extra time to arrange. Yikes. I'm going to have to find a key where my voice doesn't sound awful (if any such key exists). Or maybe I should do vaguely "spoken word"-type vocals like Pop Musik or One Night in Bangkok. Or maybe I should try to take on an affected vocal style to mask my bad tone. All options sound like bad ideas, I'll just have to decide which is the lesser evil.
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